Joint effort brings remo­te Wi-Fi manage­ment capa­bi­li­ties to IT admi­nis­tra­tors through AMD PRO tech­no­lo­gies suite of enter­pri­se tech­no­lo­gy offerings
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 17, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Qual­comm Tech­no­lo­gies, Inc., a sub­si­dia­ry of Qual­comm Incor­po­ra­ted (NASDAQ: QCOM), today announ­ced a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on to opti­mi­ze the Qual­comm® Fast­Con­nect™ con­nec­ti­vi­ty sys­tem for AMD Ryzen™ pro­ces­sor-based com­pu­ting plat­forms, start­ing with AMD Ryzen™ PRO 6000 Series pro­ces­sors and the Qual­comm® Fast­Con­nect™ 6900. With the Fast­Con­nect 6900 sys­tem, the latest AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sor-powered busi­ness lap­tops fea­ture Wi-Fi® 6 and 6E con­nec­ti­vi­ty, inclu­ding advan­ced wire­less capa­bi­li­ties enab­led with Win­dows 11.

In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Micro­soft, next-gene­ra­ti­on Win­dows 11 PCs, such as the Leno­vo Think­Pad Z Series and HP Eli­te­Book 805 Series, can harness the full poten­ti­al of Win­dows 11 Wi-Fi Dual Sta­ti­on through Qual­comm® 4‑Stream Dual Band Simul­ta­neous. Mul­ti­ple Wi-Fi bands out­per­form tra­di­tio­nal sin­gle band con­nec­tions for impro­ved video con­fe­ren­cing expe­ri­en­ces, redu­ced laten­cy, and enhan­ced con­nec­tion robust­ness. Lever­aging the 6 GHz band, next-gen lap­top users can take full advan­ta­ge of its band­width and speed impro­ve­ments wit­hout com­pe­ting with any non-6E devices.

For IT admi­nis­tra­tors, the AMD Mana­gea­bi­li­ty Pro­ces­sor¹ now available in Ryzen PRO 6000 sys­tems is a solu­ti­on that enables remo­te manage­ment of AMD com­mer­cial plat­forms. When pai­red with the Fast­Con­nect 6900, this solu­ti­on enables wire­less mana­gea­bi­li­ty with sup­port for 32+ wide­ly used Open Stan­dard-Based (DASH) pro­files. Tog­e­ther the AMD Mana­gea­bi­li­ty pro­ces­sor and the Fast­Con­nect 6900 unlock enhan­ced capa­bi­li­ties for IT to mana­ge systems.

“Out-of-band Wi-Fi remo­te manage­ment is an important tool for enter­pri­se IT mana­gers to dia­gno­se and fix issues, even when the ope­ra­ting sys­tem is not run­ning,” said Jason Ban­ta, CVP and Gene­ral Mana­ger, OEM Cli­ent Com­pu­ting, AMD. “AMD Ryzen™ PRO 6000 Series pro­ces­sors with Qual­comm Fast­Con­nect 6900 enable next gene­ra­ti­on busi­ness lap­tops to have the pro­ces­sing and con­nec­ti­vi­ty tools nee­ded to per­form in modern envi­ron­ments, offe­ring pro­fes­sio­nal-strength remo­te mana­gea­bi­li­ty for users in the new, hybrid workplace.”

“Our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD reflects Qual­comm Tech­no­lo­gies’ com­mit­ment to the mobi­le com­pu­ting space. By opti­mi­zing Fast­Con­nect 6900 for plat­forms powered by AMD Ryzen 6000 Series pro­ces­sors, we’re brin­ging secu­re Wi-Fi remo­te manage­ment to AMD enter­pri­se cus­to­mers,” said Dino Bekis, vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Mobi­le Com­pu­te and Con­nec­ti­vi­ty, Qual­comm Tech­no­lo­gies, Inc. “This repres­ents the first step in our rela­ti­onship to bring supe­ri­or wire­less con­nec­ti­vi­ty to the AMD mobi­le com­pu­ting roadmap.”

Indus­try Support
“At HP, we are com­mit­ted to crea­ting solu­ti­ons that pro­vi­de cus­to­mers with inno­va­ti­on choices cri­ti­cal to thri­ve in today’s hybrid work envi­ron­ments,” said Gagan Singh, vice pre­si­dent, com­mer­cial port­fo­lio pro­duct manage­ment and expe­ri­en­ces, HP Inc. “The AMD Ryzen™ PRO 6000 Series pro­ces­sors deli­ver high per­for­mance, bat­tery life, plus the remo­te manage­ment fea­tures our cus­to­mers expect, while the latest AMD Ryzen PRO pro­ces­sors with Qual­comm Fast­Con­nect 6900 pro­vi­de the opti­on of advan­ced connectivity.” 

“Our enter­pri­se cus­to­mers demand the advan­ced mana­gea­bi­li­ty and supe­ri­or Wi-Fi con­nec­ti­vi­ty AMD Ryzen™ PRO 6000 Series pro­ces­sors with Qual­comm Fast­Con­nect 6900 offer,” said Tom But­ler, exe­cu­ti­ve direc­tor, IDG Com­mer­cial Port­fo­lio at Leno­vo. “The Wi-Fi 6E exten­si­on into 1200MHz of new 6 GHz spec­trum addres­ses the demand for relia­ble two-way data traf­fic such as video calls, col­la­bo­ra­ti­on tools like Micro­soft Teams and remo­te manage­ment to ensu­re sus­tained pro­duc­ti­vi­ty for the glo­bal work­force facing con­ges­ti­on from strea­ming, gam­ing and school-from-home.”

In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with our OEM pro­vi­ders, AMD and Qual­comm Tech­no­lo­gies are com­mit­ted to deli­ve­ring lea­ding com­mer­cial plat­forms, addres­sing the new needs for busi­ness users and IT departments.

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About AMD 
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics, and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages. 

About Qual­comm
Qual­comm is the world’s lea­ding wire­less tech­no­lo­gy inno­va­tor and the dri­ving force behind the deve­lo­p­ment, launch, and expan­si­on of 5G.  When we con­nec­ted the pho­ne to the inter­net, the mobi­le revo­lu­ti­on was born.  Today, our foun­da­tio­nal tech­no­lo­gies enable the mobi­le eco­sys­tem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smart­phone. We bring the bene­fits of mobi­le to new indus­tries, inclu­ding auto­mo­ti­ve, the inter­net of things, and com­pu­ting, and are lea­ding the way to a world whe­re ever­y­thing and ever­yo­ne can com­mu­ni­ca­te and inter­act seamlessly.

Qual­comm Incor­po­ra­ted includes our licen­sing busi­ness, QTL, and the vast majo­ri­ty of our patent port­fo­lio. Qual­comm Tech­no­lo­gies, Inc., a sub­si­dia­ry of Qual­comm Incor­po­ra­ted, ope­ra­tes, along with its sub­si­dia­ries, sub­stan­ti­al­ly all of our engi­nee­ring, rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment func­tions, and sub­stan­ti­al­ly all of our pro­ducts and ser­vices busi­nesses, inclu­ding our QCT semi­con­duc­tor business.

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¹ AMD Mana­gea­bi­li­ty Pro­ces­sor requi­res OEM ena­blem­ent. Check with the sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer pri­or to purchase.